Revisiting Hue – The Old Ancient Capital As this was our second visit to Hue, we wanted to spend a couple of nights to either revisit or capture some of the city we missed the first time around. Now there is so much more to see than what we visited so do your research to […]
Our Journey to the DMZ To get to the DMZ, we needed to travel from Ninh Binh to central Vietnam. The best way to do this was by overnight sleeper train. This was from Ninh Binh to the small town of Dong Ha. Overnight Sleeper Train We have travelled a few times by overnight train. […]
Ninh Binh or Tam Coc or Trang An Dilema – Ninh Binh is a province south of Hanoi and it is also a city. Do we stay in the city or do we stay around 7km out in either Tam Coc or Trang An. After researching, we decided on Tam Coc. We are so glad […]
Hanoi to Tam Coc It was time to make our way to our next destination, travelling south from Hanoi to Tam Coc in the Ninh Binh district. This is about a 3 hour direct drive (well as direct as you can get in Vietnam) south of Hanoi. There are a couple of options to get […]
Going Back to Where it all Began We have been lucky enough to secure back-to-back house/pet sitting assignments over the past couple of months so the blogs/vlogs have been few and far between. We were fortunate enough to be chosen to look after a Sheltie dog in the lovely town of Hoi An, Vietnam. This […]
Tangkahan to Lake Toba It was time to leave Tangkahan for the trip south to Lake Toba. We knew what we were in for thanks to our trip in. However, we also were aware of how much rain we had the night before. This we figured, might have some bearing on the condition of the […]
Welcome to the Jungle We had a 10 day gap between our House/Dog Sit assignment in KL. We so thought that we would grab the opportunity for a trip over to the jungle in Northern Sumatra. After all, it is only a 1 hour flight to get there. My cousin Carly has been living in […]
Which is it – Melaka or Malacca This confused me even before I got to Melaka. Which one is the correct spelling and why was I seeing it spelt differently. It’s actually fairly straight forward. Melaka is the Malay spelling and Malacca is the English spelling. The State of Melaka announced earlier this year that […]
The Cameron Highlands has always been on our list as a place to visit. Ipoh to Cameron Highlands To get from Ipoh to the Cameron Highlands, we needed to catch a bus from Ipoh’s main bus terminal – Aman Jaya. Our research told us that the weekends were a particularly crazy time in the Camerons. […]
Ipoh – Certainly a Destination You can be excused if you haven’t heard of Ipoh (pronounced e-pou). When researching how we best get to Cameron Highlands, Ipoh came up as a place to disembark the train from the border crossing at Pedang Besar. It was approximately 2.5hr train trip from the Thai/Malay border and it […]